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It may be urged that the actual presence of past experiences,
kept present by Memory, gives the advantage to the man of the
longer felicity.
But, Memory of what sort of experiences?
Memory either of formerly attained wisdom and virtue- in which
case we have a better man and the argument from memory is given
up- or memory of past pleasures, as if the man that has arrived
at felicity must roam far and wide in search of gratifications
and is not contented by the bliss actually within him.
And what is there pleasant in the memory of pleasure? What is it
to recall yesterday's excellent dinner? Still more ridiculous,
one of ten years ago. So, too, of last year's morality.
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